Ewloe Green Primary School

WB 18th September 2017

Stars of the Week 22/9/2017

This week's 'Stars of the Week' are Emma and Ethan Baxter who both achieved the highest total of dojos this week. Well done Emma and Ethan!

This week some of the things we have been doing include...

Language, Literacy and Communication:

Listening to the story of 'Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs'

Writing about a time when we have lost something

Mathematical Development:

Sorting dinosaurs into different criterion

Collecting natural objects from outside and sorting them

Knowledge and Understanding of the World:

Labelling the different body parts of a dinosaur

Listening to the theme music to Jurassic Park and responding

Physical Development:

Learning about using the space around them and playing the 'Cat Game'.

Collective Worship/Religious Education:

Introduced the religion Christianity

Just some of the things we've been getting up to...

Forest Schools - Protect the dinosaur egg!

We all had a great time in Forest Schools this week. Mrs Partridge put us into small groups and gave each group a dinosaur egg to protect. We were set the challenge of using natural materials to build a nest to protect our dinosaur eggs and keep them warm. We collected materials and worked together to build our nests. We're very proud of our builds!

Next week is HUMANITIES FOCUS WEEK, and Year 1 will be learning all about FRANCE.

We will be taking part in lots of fun learning activities including:

Taste testing French foods

Looking at famous landmarks in France, in particular the Eiffel Tower and the Notre Dame

Learning some French songs

Creating the Eiffel Tower using art straws

FRIDAY - We will be dressing up 'French Style'.

Along side this we will be continuing with our Stomp in the Swomp topic and we will be:

"The school provides an outstanding range of learning experiences. Very imaginative opportunities are regularly provided for all pupils to develop the skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT across the curriculum." ESTYN, 2012